Flutter Quill Extensions

An extension for flutter_quill to support embedding widgets images, formulas, and videos.

📚 Table of Contents

📝 About

flutter_quill is a rich editor text. It has custom embed builders that allow you to render custom widgets in the editor

This is an extension to extend its functionalities by adding more features like images, videos, and more

📦 Installation

Follow the usage instructions of flutter_quill.

Add the flutter_quill_extensions dependency to your project:

dependencies:
  flutter_quill_extensions: ^<latest-version-here>

OR

dependencies:
  flutter_quill_extensions:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/singerdmx/flutter-quill.git
      ref: v<latest-version-here>
      path: flutter_quill_extensions

🛠 Platform Specific Configurations

The package uses the following plugins:

  1. gal to save images. Ensure to follow the Get Started guide as it requires platform-specific setup.
  2. image_picker for picking images. See the Installation section.

Loading Images from the Internet

Android

  1. Add the necessary permissions to your AndroidManifest.xml. For detailed instructions, refer to the Android Guide or Flutter Networking. Note that internet permission is included by default only for debugging; you must explicitly add it for release versions.

  2. To restrict image and video loading to HTTPS only, configure your app accordingly. If you need to support HTTP, you must adjust your app settings for release mode. Consult the Android Cleartext / Plaintext HTTP guide for more information.

macOS

Include a key in your Info.plist file to enable internet access. For detailed steps, follow the instructions in the Flutter macOS Networking documentation.

🚀 Usage

Once you follow the Installation section. Set the embedBuilders and embedToolbar params in configurations of QuillEditor and QuillToolbar.

Quill Toolbar:

QuillToolbar.simple(
  configurations: QuillSimpleToolbarConfigurations(
    embedButtons: FlutterQuillEmbeds.toolbarButtons(),
  ),
),

Quill Editor:

Expanded(
  child: QuillEditor.basic(
    configurations: QuillEditorConfigurations(
      embedBuilders: kIsWeb ? FlutterQuillEmbeds.editorWebBuilders() : FlutterQuillEmbeds.editorBuilders(),
    ),
  ),
)

⚙️ Configurations

📦 Embed Blocks

Flutter_quill provides an interface for all the users to provide their implementations for embed blocks. Implementations for image, video, and formula embed blocks are proved in this package.

The instructions for using the embed blocks are in the Usage section.

🔍 Element properties

Currently, the library has limited support for the image and video properties, and it supports only width, height, margin

{
  "insert": {
    "image": "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/122956/72955931-ccc07900-3d52-11ea-89b1-d468a6e2aa2b.png"
  },
  "attributes": {
    "style": "width: 50px; height: 50px; margin: 10px;"
  }
}

🔧 Custom Element properties

Doesn't apply to official Quill JS

Define flutterAlignment` as follows:

{
  "insert": {
    "image": "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/122956/72955931-ccc07900-3d52-11ea-89b1-d468a6e2aa2b.png"
  },
  "attributes": {
    "style": "flutterAlignment: topLeft"
  }
}

This works only for non-web platforms.

📝 Rich Text Paste Feature

The rich text paste feature is now supported directly in flutter_quill as platform code is not bundled with the project.

🖼️ Image Assets

If you want to use image assets in the Quill Editor, you need to make sure your assets folder is assets otherwise:

QuillEditor.basic(
  configurations: const QuillEditorConfigurations(
    // ...
    sharedConfigurations: QuillSharedConfigurations(
      extraConfigurations: {
        QuillSharedExtensionsConfigurations.key:
            QuillSharedExtensionsConfigurations(
          assetsPrefix: 'your-assets-folder-name', // Defaults to `assets`
        ),
      },
    ),
  ),
);

This info is necessary for the package to check if its asset image to use the AssetImage provider.

🎯 Drag and drop feature

Currently, the drag-and-drop feature is not officially supported, but you can achieve this very easily in the following steps:

  1. Drag and drop require native code, you can use any Flutter plugin you like, if you want a suggestion we recommend desktop_drop, it was originally developed for desktop. It has support for the web as well as Android (that is not the case for iOS)

  2. Add the dependency in your pubspec.yaml using the following command:

    flutter pub add desktop_drop

    and import it with

    import 'package:desktop_drop/desktop_drop.dart';

  3. in the configurations of QuillEditor, use the builder to wrap the editor with DropTarget which comes from desktop_drop

    import 'package:flutter_quill_extensions/flutter_quill_extensions.dart';
   
QuillEditor.basic(
      configurations: QuillEditorConfigurations(
        padding: const EdgeInsets.all(16),
         builder: (context, rawEditor) {
            return DropTarget(
              onDragDone: _onDragDone,
              child: rawEditor,
            );
          },
        embedBuilders: kIsWeb
            ? FlutterQuillEmbeds.editorWebBuilders()
            : FlutterQuillEmbeds.editorBuilders(),
      ),
)

  4. Implement the _onDragDone, it depends on your use case but this is just a simple example

const List<String> imageFileExtensions = [
  '.jpeg',
  '.png',
  '.jpg',
  '.gif',
  '.webp',
  '.tif',
  '.heic'
];
OnDragDoneCallback get _onDragDone {
    return (details) {
      final scaffoldMessenger = ScaffoldMessenger.of(context);
      final file = details.files.first;
      final isSupported =
          imageFileExtensions.any((ext) => file.name.endsWith(ext));
      if (!isSupported) {
        scaffoldMessenger.showSnackBar(
          SnackBar(
            content: Text(
              'Only images are supported right now: ${file.mimeType}, ${file.name}, ${file.path}, $imageFileExtensions',
            ),
          ),
        );
        return;
      }
      // To get this extension function please import flutter_quill_extensions
      _controller.insertImageBlock(
        imageSource: file.path,
      );
      scaffoldMessenger.showSnackBar(
        const SnackBar(
          content: Text('Image is inserted.'),
        ),
      );
    };
  }

🤝 Contributing

We greatly appreciate your time and effort.

To keep the project consistent and maintainable, we have a few guidelines that we ask all contributors to follow. These guidelines help ensure that everyone can understand and work with the code easier.

See Contributing for more details.

Libraries

flutter_quill_extensions